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Maybe not, it's really easy to get this thing (I'm a network admin, and it got loose on my network!), but he has the same group of people sending it to him over, and over, and over... "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

ahhhhhhh, you gotta love a worm that's smart enough to disable older versions of the anti-virus software you're running before it does it's dirty work... Don't feel like the lone ranger, klez is the most widely spread computer virus ever... I have my mail server at work set up to strip executable attachments, and send me a copy of anything that it's done this to (I'm the postmaster), and I've got one guy here at work that must have klez emailed to him at least a hundred times! I told him he needs smarter friends... BTW - if you look in the message headers for the "X-Return-Path:" line, it will tell you who it REALLY came from... "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Cool video!!! But it looks to me like the pilot chute came out of the pouch prematurely (kinda of hard to tell from the video tho), in which case it may be incidental that it was Dolphin, since lots of rigs use spandex BOC pouches, and if you let them get sloppy loose, they ALL have the potential for a premature release... "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

If there's no video... it didn't happen! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

ROFLMAO... yeah, well, there's NO doubt about that!!! But then again, I think he had his sister inlaw decorate their house at one point, so maybe he wasn't that good at decorating after all... I know I suck, I have very little furniture after getting divorced a couple of years ago, but I DO have a rig in my upstairs closet!!! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

I've always wondered, how do unconflicted, secure, heterosexual men feel about guys who act out like this? There's such a thing as unconflicted, secure men, heterosexual or otherwise??? Everybody has conflicts, and issues to deal with, and we all handle them differently... My best friend in the whole world, whom I've known for 22+ years (and met skydiving BTW), is gay... he came out many years after I had met him, and after he came out, it was like, SO WHAT? He was the very same person that I knew, the very same person that I had formed a lifelong bond with, and it changed nothing between he and I, just as it shoud be. Peace on earth, goodwill to all... "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

I jumped the venerable old DC-3, 'Mr. Douglas', once, at a nationals boogie in Oklahoma in 1980 or so... Mr. Douglas had a pimpin' stereo, and they played 'Free Bird' on the climb to altitude... it was pretty cool! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

While I agree with Goat on this (hey Goat, you won't recognize me from the pic, but we've met at SDD!!!)... I don't think the newer Dolphin's were designed totally ignoring freeflying... they feature full length riser covers, and pretty decent pin protection... they just do it with velcro. Velcro works fine when it's new, but degrades in time with normal use, and requires regular replacing to be effective... tuck tabs don't (although they do wear out over time too, I've pin checked some pretty sloppy riser covers that used tuck tabs, I'll take my chance with my velcro) That said, the Dolphin is still behind the times when it comes to being FF friendly, even though they do finally offer tucktab riser covers... "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Do the same thing I do after an episode where UPS delivered over $1000 worth of computer parts to the apt next door to me, to people who'm I'd never met, to people who promptly stole the thing, and told me that UPS had NOT left a package there for me... use FedX "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

He can if he uses the free open source program Open Office... it reads most word .doc files quite nicely... www.openoffice.org Oh yeah, and for the record, I installed Win2K and Mandrake Linux 9.0 on my pc at home, and only ONE of the installs detected ALL my hardware, and loaded just a few security patches at the end of the install, all without rebooting ONCE. "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Well, that's what I'm trying to avaoid if I can... I'm sending the main to PD to have new steering lines put on at the same time I send the Cypres, so I won't get the reserve repacked until everything comes back prolly... "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

But just to send it off for it's 4 year, and some new batteries... (ouch! $$$ ) Is there anything I need to know to get that thing uninstalled? I had my rigger install it of course, and I didn't watch, but can't imagine that it's so complicated that I couldn't get it apart... I'll take it back to him to reassemble and repack the reserve when I get it back... any tips or gottcha's to watch out for? "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

twelve ounce curls is NOT a sport... even in Texas! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Besides skydiving, I scuba dive (all three of my kids are certified scuba divers), snow ski (yeah, I've taken the kids skiing too), and play ice hockey... I just wish I could afford to do more of all of them!!! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." - Richard Bach - Illusions "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

So.... what do the Dallas Cowboys, the Dallas Mavericks, and the Dallas Stars all have in common??? They all suck at football... "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

My mom and dad drank very little (at least that I can remember) growing up, and none of my three brothers drink much at all, and never have... I, on the other hand, have been known at various times in my life to drink enough to make up for all of them... "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Yeah, Skymama needs to exert some of her newly bestowed power, and make an example of someone, so we know she's serious... C'mon Skymama, lock a thread or something!!! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Yeah, what Mark said! THAT would rock!!! or... you could just install all 3 distros, then pick one! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

You can't go wrong with any of the 3 distros already mentioned! I personally run Mandrake, but have used Redhat also, and liked it too... and all three distros have nice GUI tools that will help ease the transition from the evil empire... You might want to install SWAT to ease Samba administration, depending on your comfort level with hacking around in files like the smb.conf file. "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

And you can provide documented proof of this? "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

When I started jumping 1978, only really experienced jumpers used 'squares'... the DZ that I trained at wouldn't let you jump a ram air canopy until you were B license level... now we put first jump students out on them. I have some old parachutist magazines, including one that has the yearly fatality report for 1981 or 82, and I 'd have to go back and look to be sure , but I don't think there were ANY open canopy deaths that year... I can understand why people want to jump fast canopies, and learn to swoop... it all looks VERY exciting... but it's a new, evolving discipline, requiring specialized training, and very carefully controlled progression to be done safely. And until everybody acknowledges that fact and makes decisions accordingly, we'll continue to have friends hurt and killed under 'perfectly good' canopies. There are old skydivers, and there are bold skydivers, but there are NO old and bold skydivers! Be safe!!! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

I'm running it both at home and here at work, and it's simply one of the best Linux distros going for the newbie user... lots of good tools to ease the transition from the evil empire of MS... I have my box at home set up to dual boot Mandrake 9.0 and Win2k, and it was actually MUCH easier and less trouble to get Mandrake installed and updated than it was Win2k, which failed to indentify and set up drivers for both the video and NIC (Mandrake got these right)... and then there's all those damn security patches to install for Win2k, and the countless rebooting... ARGH! "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

hehehe... that picture is from 1980! I don't quite look like that anymore, but oh, what I wouldn't give to have that hair back! I have that same picture on my ID badge at work, and the people there look at that pic and swear it's not me! I'm actually 0x002D years old now... "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

Ever notice how time fades some memories, and others remain clear as a bell??? I'm not like most of you here... I'm like... OLD. Really old, I mean like old enough to be your DAD, and old enough to think that Skymama is too young for me. Being really old, I started skydiving a really long time ago... probably about the same year that some of you were born! I had wanted to skydive forever, or at least forever since the 5th grade, when I checked out a book from the mobile library at John Glenn Elementary School titled "The Silken Angels"... so in 1978, at the tender age of 20, it didn't take much for an already interested co-worker to talk me into joining him for a first jump course at a local DZ in the Dallas area... It's a LONG story, how MUCH that first jump would change my life... but a few things along the way will always stand out, and one of them will be the first Thanksgiving after I started jumping. I was SO bitten by the skydiving bug... that year I decided to forgo my usual pilgrimage to San Antoniio to visit family, in favor of a Turkey Day meet at another local DZ, a DZ where I had never jumped before... It was an accuracy meet, I mean, after all it was 1978, style and accuracy were still hip! I had this bad-assed red and black Paracommander, the epitome of high performance sport canopies (well, for me anyway, the DZ that I trained at wouldn't let you jump the life threatening 'square' canopies until you had at least 50 jumps!), so I was set! I could put that puppy down in the middle of all but the smallest of cotten fields, and it didn't want to break both my legs like those student T-10's did! So we went, several us from our DZ, to this unfamiliar DZ in Seagoville... the DZ was run by Jerry and Sherry Schrimsher, and those of you familiar with skydiving in Texas will recognize those names, while those less fortunate will not. I knew OF them, but had never met them before, but as longtime icons in the sport of skydiving in our area, their reputation preceded them... The meet was fun. Accuracy is fun. Downwind landings under a paracommander are FUN. The meet ran over the span of a couple of days, finishing up Thanksgiving day. I know hadn't been jumping long enough to fully appreciate the family and brotherhood that skydiving really is, but at the end of the meet, I got indoctrinated... At the end of the day, the Schrimshers invited everyone at the DZ to their house for Thanksgiving dinner. I was surprised to say the least, I mean, after all, I barely knew them! It didn't matter. We went. We had a great time. I still think about it. Every Thanksgiving. I jumped from 1978-1983, made about 600 jumps, met my wife at the DZ, quit jumping, got married, had kids... 16 years later got divorced, and started jumping again. One of the first weekend I spent at the DZ, I was up way too late, drinking way too much, and partying with the DZ crowd... among them happened to be one of Jerry and Sherry's son, Stan, who I vaguely remembered meeting that Thanksgiving SO many years ago... and as fate would have it, the next morning while I was wandering back from the showers, I ran into Stan's dad, Jerry... I knew that he didn't recognize me, so I re-introduced myself, and told him why I'd always remember him, and Sherry, and that Thanksgiving in 1978. "If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."